Technical Advisor II – Food Security, Livelihoods and Markets – Sudan FNS Plan Lead

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is an international non-governmental organization supporting relief and development work in over 99 countries around the world. CRS programs assist persons on the basis of need, regardless of creed, ethnicity or nationality and works through local church and non-church partners to implement its programs. CRS has been helping po…

Technical Advisor II – Food Security, Livelihoods and Markets – Sudan FNS Plan Lead

Job Summary

• This position is embedded in the Humanitarian Response Department (HRD) Market-based Rapid Response and Recovery (MBRRR) Team, with a dotted line to the CRS Sudan program. The HRD MBRRR Team is the agency lead for Cash & Market-based Programming and the emergency Food Security & Livelihoods Sectors. As part of this team, you will provide technical advice, guidance, and support to a wide range of program design and implementation issues with a focus on larger projects in the area of food security and livelihoods and markets in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to regional and Country Program (CP) teams to advance the delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable. Your technical knowledge, advice and guidance will contribute to determining how effective, adaptive and innovative CRS’ food security and livelihoods and market based programming is across the globe.

• With 50% of your time, you will also directly support the CRS Sudan team to manage and steer the implementation of Sudan’s first FNS Plan. As main coordinator of the FNS Plan Secretariat, you will provide leadership and support to CRS and a number of humanitarian development actors in the implementation and continual improvement of the FNS Plan.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in food security and livelihoods that effectively engage partners, donors and governments. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.

• Provide technical solutions to regional and CP teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply program design and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and M&E, ensuring high-quality implementation.

• Contribute to regional and CP efforts to pre-position CRS for growth opportunities in food security and livelihoods. Lead or contribute to the development of the technical design for large and/or complex proposals, including defining appropriate monitoring systems and indicators. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS’ approach.

• Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in food security and livelihoods programming for staff and partner through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and mentoring and coaching to CP staff.

• FNS Plan management:  Coordinate Sudan’s FNS Plan Secretariat, and manage the budget and activities designed to implement and improve the FNS Plan; Maintain and develop relationships with peers, World Bank, senior humanitarian and development leaders in Sudan, and other donors; Refine activities and administer sub-grants as necessary, for the FNS Plan data partner and for additional research or workshops; hold meetings as necessary; ensure success of the FNS Plan should it be triggered.

• Contribute to knowledge management and learning through collecting and analyzing program data, evaluating strategic projects, assisting with measuring program impact, capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices, and research and internal reports.

• Establish and maintain relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions. Participate in forums in the area of food security and livelihoods to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities